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Default behaviour of the Terminate/Restart Current Task if only one task to choose that task automatically #51699
Description
If one were to run workbench.actions.tasks.terminate or workbench.actions.tasks.restart after setting a custom keybinding for them, the UI will always prompt for the user to choose which tasks to restart/terminate.
This is great if there's multiple tasks running. But if there's only one task running then it can be a major annoyance and slow down your workflow.
I propose that the behaviour can be set (with a workbench setting) to select the only running item by default if there's no other running tasks. (A naive tasks.length == 1 check would do it or something like that?)
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dbaeumer commentedon Jun 13, 2018
Dups #47853.
Gama11 commentedon Jun 13, 2018
I'm very much looking forward to a solution to this as well. I've wasted countless clicks on that "terminate previous task" button. :)
Gama11 commentedon Jun 14, 2018
I ended up implementing a workaround using the new tasks API:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vshaxe.terminator
GeorgeWL commentedon Jun 15, 2018
that's not really related to this issue at all...it does get rid of the popup I suppose, which is another unrelated issue. Jens Fischer (@Gama11)
Gama11 commentedon Jun 15, 2018
Yeah, I suppose you're right. It's a bit different, but still related. :)